China: The New Leap

Almost at once China put its border clash with
Russia to use in a new domestic propaganda campaign. The aim is "to
convert the workers' indignation at the Soviet revisionist armed
provocation into revolutionary energy," as the official New China News
Agency put it. According to the agency, miners promised to "produce
more top-quality coal, so as to burn the Soviet revisionists, a paper
tiger, into ashes." Workers at the Anshan Iron and Steel Company were
reported so angry at the Russians that they opened a new furnace ahead
of schedule.